[39.11] Cosmological Implications

J.R. Mould (Australian National Univ.)

If the inverse Hubble time is 70 ± 7 km/sec/Mpc, then
H0-1 is 14.0 ± 1.4 Gyrs, very similar to the age
of the globular clusters. There is little room for
deceleration in such a Universe, a far cry from the elegant
asymptotically stationary situation envisaged in the
Einstein de Sitter model. If the age of the globular
clusters is 13 ± 2.5 Gyrs with 95% confidence, then
that model is ruled out by the expansion rate constraint at
a similar confidence level. This is an independent
indication that the geometry of the Universe suggested in
the last few years by fainter than expected high redshift
supernovae may be correct.

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